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This thought-provoking book highlights the increasing recognition
of the prevalence of neurodisability within criminal justice
systems, discussing conditions including intellectual, cognitive
and behavioural impairments, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and
traumatic and acquired brain injury. International scholars and
practitioners demonstrate the extent and complexity of the
neurodisability experience and present practical solutions for
criminal justice reform. Examining the growing body of evidence
which illustrates the significant over-representation of
neurodisability amongst prison and juvenile justice populations,
this critical book explores the challenges faced by people with a
neurodisability who come into contact with the justice system.
These challenges include: difficulty understanding interactions
with police, navigating court processes, comprehending sentencing
orders, and coping with prison and post-release life, which can
lead to repeat victimisation and criminalisation. Overall, this
book establishes that justice systems are often unable to meet the
specific needs of people with a neurodisability and that there is a
significant lack of appropriate support within the community aimed
at prevention and diversion. Providing broad interdisciplinary
insights, this timely book will prove a vital resource for scholars
and students of criminal law, law and society, criminology,
neuroscience and social work. It will also be of value to legal
practitioners, law enforcement, prison employees and welfare
professionals engaged with individuals with a neurodisability.
This book provides a unique account of the high-profile
community-based restorative justice projects in the Republican and
Loyalist communities that have emerged with the ending of the
conflict in Northern Ireland. Unprecedented new partnerships
between Republican communities and the Police Service of Northern
Ireland have developed, and former IRA and UVF combatants and
political ex prisoners have been amongst those involved. Community
restorative justice projects have been central to these
groundbreaking changes, acting as both facilitator and transformer.
Based on an extensive range of interviews with key players in this
process, many of them former combatants, and unique access to the
different community projects this books tells a fascinating story.
At the same time this book explores the wider implications for
restorative justice internationally, highlighting the important
lessons for partnerships between police and community in other
jurisdictions, particularly in the high-crime alienated
neighbourhoods which exist in most western societies, as well as
transitional ones. It also offers a critical analysis of the roles
of both community and state and the tensions around the ownership
of justice, and a critical, unromanticized assessment of the role
of restorative justice in the community.
Punishing the Other draws on the work of Zygmunt Bauman to discuss
contemporary discourses and practices of punishment and
criminalization. Bringing together some of the most exciting
international scholars, both established and emerging, this book
engages with Bauman's thesis of the social production of immorality
in the context of criminalization and social control and addresses
processes of 'othering' through a range of contemporary case
studies situated in various cultural, political and social
contexts. Topics covered include the increasing bureaucratization
of the business of punishment with the corresponding loss of moral
and ethical reflection in the public sphere; punitive discourses
around border control and immigration; and exclusionary discourses
and their consequences concerning 'terrorists' and other socially
and culturally defined outsiders. Engaging with national and global
issues that are more topical now than ever before, this book is
essential reading for academics and students of involved in the
study of the sociology of punishment, punishment and modern
society, the criminal justice system, philosophy and punishment,
and comparative criminology and penology.
Why do some modern societies punish their offenders differently to
others? Why are some more punitive and others more tolerant in
their approach to offending and how can these differences be
explained? Based on extensive historical analysis and fieldwork in
the penal systems of England, Australia and New Zealand on the one
hand and Finland, Norway and Sweden on the other, this book seeks
to answer these questions. The book argues that the penal
differences that currently exist between these two clusters of
societies emanate from their early nineteenth-century social
arrangements, when the Anglophone societies were dominated by
exclusionary value systems that contrasted with the more
inclusionary values of the Nordic countries. The development of
their penal programmes over this two hundred year period, including
the much earlier demise of the death penalty in the Nordic
countries and significant differences between the respective prison
rates and prison conditions of the two clusters, reflects the
continuing influence of these values. Indeed, in the early 21st
century these differences have become even more pronounced. John
Pratt and Anna Eriksson offer a unique contribution to this topic
of growing importance: comparative research in the history and
sociology of punishment. This book will be of interest to those
studying criminology, sociology, punishment, prison and penal
policy, as well as professionals working in prisons or in the area
of penal policy across the six societies that feature in the book.
Why do some modern societies punish their offenders differently to
others? Why are some more punitive and others more tolerant in
their approach to offending and how can these differences be
explained? Based on extensive historical analysis and fieldwork in
the penal systems of England, Australia and New Zealand on the one
hand and Finland, Norway and Sweden on the other, this book seeks
to answer these questions. The book argues that the penal
differences that currently exist between these two clusters of
societies emanate from their early nineteenth-century social
arrangements, when the Anglophone societies were dominated by
exclusionary value systems that contrasted with the more
inclusionary values of the Nordic countries. The development of
their penal programmes over this two hundred year period, including
the much earlier demise of the death penalty in the Nordic
countries and significant differences between the respective prison
rates and prison conditions of the two clusters, reflects the
continuing influence of these values. Indeed, in the early 21st
century these differences have become even more pronounced. John
Pratt and Anna Eriksson offer a unique contribution to this topic
of growing importance: comparative research in the history and
sociology of punishment. This book will be of interest to those
studying criminology, sociology, punishment, prison and penal
policy, as well as professionals working in prisons or in the area
of penal policy across the six societies that feature in the book.
Punishing the Other draws on the work of Zygmunt Bauman to discuss
contemporary discourses and practices of punishment and
criminalization. Bringing together some of the most exciting
international scholars, both established and emerging, this book
engages with Bauman's thesis of the social production of immorality
in the context of criminalization and social control and addresses
processes of 'othering' through a range of contemporary case
studies situated in various cultural, political and social
contexts. Topics covered include the increasing bureaucratization
of the business of punishment with the corresponding loss of moral
and ethical reflection in the public sphere; punitive discourses
around border control and immigration; and exclusionary discourses
and their consequences concerning 'terrorists' and other socially
and culturally defined outsiders. Engaging with national and global
issues that are more topical now than ever before, this book is
essential reading for academics and students of involved in the
study of the sociology of punishment, punishment and modern
society, the criminal justice system, philosophy and punishment,
and comparative criminology and penology.
This book provides a unique account of the high-profile
community-based restorative justice projects in the Republican and
Loyalist communities that have emerged with the ending of the
conflict in Northern Ireland. Unprecedented new partnerships
between Republican communities and the Police Service of Northern
Ireland have developed, and former IRA and UVF combatants and
political ex prisoners have been amongst those involved. Community
restorative justice projects have been central to these
groundbreaking changes, acting as both facilitator and
transformer.
Based on an extensive range of interviews with key players in
this process, many of them former combatants, and unique access to
the different community projects this books tells a fascinating
story. At the same time this book explores the wider implications
for restorative justice internationally, highlighting the important
lessons for partnerships between police and community in other
jurisdictions, particularly in the high-crime alienated
neighbourhoods which exist in most western societies, as well as
transitional ones. It also offers a critical analysis of the roles
of both community and state and the tensions around the ownership
of justice, and a critical, unromanticized assessment of the role
of restorative justice in the community.
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